About Jill
Jill Sheetz is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She works with adults who are dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, grief, and ADHD. Her approach aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a strength-based, client-centered stance in sessions. That means she centers each conversation on what a person already brings to the room and builds practical steps from there.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and concrete ways to cope with daily stress and relationship strain. Jill draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns in thinking and behavior that keep problems going. She also uses mindfulness practices to help with emotional regulation and reducing reactivity.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques guide short-term goal setting and boost motivation for change. Her work often includes supporting people facing addiction, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, and life transitions such as divorce or caregiving stress. Jill also assists those coping with chronic illness, sleep and eating issues, and compassion fatigue in caregiving roles.
Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person’s needs. Jill encourages honest conversation, practical planning, and steady progress. She aims to make therapy feel like a partnership where clients leave with usable skills and clearer next steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person from their own point of view and building on existing strengths. It helps when someone needs an accepting space to talk and wants guidance that fits their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress and strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then combine methods that match the person's needs. This is a collaborative process where plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and in-session skills practice. Phone sessions can be quicker and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for short check-ins, homework follow-up, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options offer flexibility to fit appointments around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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